Cracking WEP and WPA

By Dag, on December 29th, 2016

I've used a combination of Linux and Windows in this article. Kali for
the WiFi monitoring and Aircrack-ng tools, and Windows (my gaming computer) for the actual cracking since its GTX 970
is far more powerful than what I used in the laptop running Kali (no wifi in my gaming rig).
WEP is extremely quick to crack (10-30 sec of listening to traffic), so don't use it, ever.
It took me 30 min to crack a purely numerical WPA2-PSK password of 8 length. But hashcat projected a
month for a lowercase password. Over a year for an alphanumerical one. Increasing the length
to 13 alphanumerical characters also increased the time to >10 years. Use a special character
as well, and you're pretty safe.